Cantabile wave

Project Brief:

The brief for this project is to extract the ‘essence of home’, as we are scattered all over the globe due to the current pandemic, and leave a trace of it on our historical site. Thus, creating a ‘HideAway’- a home away from home inside the library for a person to work, play and rest.

Site:

Tate Library, Regent’s University London.

Address:

Regent's Park, Inner Circle, London NW1 4NS, United Kingdom

Cantabile Wave

HideAway in the Tate Library

The Site and Essence of Home

Mumbai is a constant blur of activity and movement during the day as people go about their busy lives. As the evening draws near, people start to slow down and create their own moments of calm, be it sipping on hot Indian chai or watching the sunset at Marine Drive. But the fabric of the city awakens at dusk and the landscape becomes a blur of blinding lights and incessant honking. The veins of the city thus pulsate at night.

Mumbai Muse

Soundscape

Inspired by the electric vibrations of the Mumbai nightscape, my proposed programme includes designated areas of study/research/work, rest/ relaxing chai time and composing music.

Faint notes of piano join the nighttime soundscape as the music rises and falls. It is a concert for an empty audience as a music composer is hidden away in the Tate Library at Regent’s University London. Magic happens as she weaves the notes on her piano and unbeknownst to her a passerby is mesmerised.

Concept Collage

Design Development

Inspired by musical instruments, the shape of musical notes and the annotations done in a musical score, the HideAway takes on an organic shape that takes over a part of the library. The development shows the progression from the structure taking over both alcoves to a more contained, minimalistic and sophisticated ‘wave’ form.